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Angry Parents and Advocacy Groups Demand that the EPA Release the
Original Children's Health Report Delayed Nine Months by White House.

WALL STREET JOURNAL AND NEW YORK TIMES SAY REPORT GIVES NEW
INFORMATION ON HOW MERCURY CAUSES NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN.

Washington, DC - Sources say the not-yet-released Children's Health
Report conducted by the EPA is actually a revised second draft.
Parents, already upset by the report's nine-month delay from the
White House, are now fuming over the apparent watered-down version
set to hit the public this afternoon.

Last Friday, an article in the Wall Street Journal stated the EPA
report warns that emissions of mercury by coal-fired power plants
and other sources poses an increasing health danger to children. In
a similar article, the New York Times said that the EPA report, the
federal government's second comprehensive assessment on children's
health that weighs environmental and biological factors, was delayed
nine months at the request of the White House.

The EPA report is said to be a "benchmark for the government to deal
with the hazards of mercury, which scientists have linked to
developmental I.Q. deficits and motor skill dysfunction, and which
is suspected to play a role in attention deficit disorder and
autism." Sources say it was the mercury portion of the report that
caused the most dispute and subsequent delay, and that the OMB,
headed up by former Eli Lilly executive Mitch Daniels, and the
OSTP made "numerous changes" to the already-edited second draft of
the report.

Last October, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) urged the Bush
Administration to release the EPA report. A press release from
Senator Boxer's office states, "OMB requested the document from EPA
in June even though it contains no policy, regulatory, or spending
recommendations, and it has yet to be released." In her letters to
OMB Director Mitch Daniels and EPA Administrator Christine Todd
Whitman, Senator Boxer said, "I question whether it is appropriate
for a scientific document on children's health to be singled out by
OMB for review by non-scientists. If the review results in major
changes to the scientific findings, it will set a dangerous precedent
that will have a chilling effect on legitimate scientific inquiries
and policy analyses not just at EPA, but across all federal
agencies."

Senator Boxer asked the report be released publicly by November 15
which never happened. It is believed that Senator Chuck Schumer (D-
NY) had the same request last month.

Parents of children who developed neurological problems after
receiving the vaccine preservative ethyl mercury Thimerosal feel
this is just another shameless tactic by the White House to suppress
evidence linking mercury-containing vaccines to autism. Just this
month congress repealed a provision quietly slipped into the
Homeland Security Bill that granted legal protection to vaccine-
makers from Thimerosal litigation. Lori McIlwain, mother of a child
with autism, says, "Senator Frist, Mitch Daniels and the Bush
Administration are going to do whatever it takes to make this problem
go away---even if it means children will go another nine months
without relief from the effects of mercury."

Parents are demanding the original report be released immediately.

To learn more about the evidence supporting a connection between
mercury and autism, visit www.momsonamissionforautism.org,
www.safeminds.org, www.altcorp.com, and
www.autismautoimmunityproject.org.

For more information contact:

Lori McIlwain

lmcilwain@msn.com

919-468-6455

Sandy Mintz
http://www.vaccinationnews.com
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/Scandals/past_scandals.htm

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." - Wendell Phillips
(1811-1884),
paraphrasing John Philpot Curran (1808)

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http://www.redflagsweekly.com

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